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I did it this way because the instructions were confusing so I threw them away and decided to wire it myself. This way, I can turn the lights on any time I want. And you won't have to worry about blowing anything out because the inline fuse will go before it hurts anything else.

I might have the supply and load wires backwards, I can't remember. If the lights don't work, try switching these two.

One reminder though. You have to be sure that you turn them off when you turn your car off.

Be warned!! Not using the relay can have bad results!! At least when wired into the headlights, not sure about when not, but you really should use the relays. I have a set of the 500 driving lights on my SAAB, still need to re-wire them correctly with the relay. Getting a V5 bumper for my Brighton coupe, plan on using 500 fog in that.

Nothing bad will happen. They are not wired to the headlights. They go from the battery, to the switch, to the lights. And it's not connected to anything else. If anything goes, it will be only the fuse.

Well all a relay is a remote switch but there not that hard to install as i got two sets on my car and i didn't even look at the instructions the second time and as for price you paid well mine where only $75 from pepboys.

thank you fo all the reply...
my quesiton is.. i did not order a oem fog light bracket...
is that ok?

from the piaa x80 instruction, seem like the bracket is jsut a piece of metal sheet, with a hole attactched on to the already there fog light hole..

i'm thinking about finding such piece of metal..

any comment? on hwo to fit in into our fog light hole?,

--is the "screw for attachmnet" suppose to be going inward toward the engine of the car screw on the bracket(like the instruction show with the piaa) or shoud it be going downward from the fog light on to the bumper skin...?

i got question...
in the instrcution manual..
the "with switch" and "with out switch".. both have sub scrpt stating
"driving light can be switched on seprately"

what does this mean?
switch and no switch no different?

also there is a piece of weird blue plastic, u can badn the platic and wrap around it self, it also have a pice of metal, seem like it is to attach 2 wire together.... what is that for? groud?
please.. help. i want to install this baby tomor momring.

??? Guys , I got the lights on without a line to my battery! Blue wire from light to switch inside car. Ground from switch inside car to ground and wire from fusebox (illumi) to the switch and voila. Now, I know this is isn't good and I've already disconnected it but, is the same amount of power output being put through to the lights?

Alright, from my understanding, all a relay does is when you flip the switch in the dash, it tells the relay to send power from the battery to the lights to turn them on. It basically makes a connection between the hella's and the battery so that they get power. If they are wired to your headlights, then when you turn your brights on, it sends a signal to the relay which shuts down the connection between the hellas and the battery. So that you don't have your brights and hella's on at the same time.

I think that the main function of a relay is to make it so that you don't have your brights and hella's on at the same time. Adn to also turn off the lights when the car is off so that you don't leave them on and drain your battery. But i found out that you don't need a relay and the only thing that you have to really worry about is turning off the lights when you turn off the car.

I'm almost positive i'm right, but I don't really know cause I never got the lights to work with the relay.

First of all, use a relay! It is crazy to run all of that current through a switch. Second, I will tell you how I wired my driving lights. It is the best way in my opinion. My driving lights just come on with the high beams only. There is not even a switch for the driving lights. You can't have them turned on any way unless there is no oncoming traffic. I just wired the relay signal wire power to the high beam headlight wire.